Author: ross
Description:
As described in the 1.6 release notes, the OutputPageBeforeHTML hook was
designed "to postprocess article HTML on page view (comes after parser cache, if
used)." It therefore seemed ideal for the design of extensions that produce
rapidly-changing output, since producing it at this late stage would not affect
the page cache. However, according to Brion Vibber, this hook is not triggered
when loading Squid-cached content
([http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Forum:Getting_the_current_user's_username#Alternative],
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:UserMagic]). Additionally, the hook is not
triggered when viewing a page in Preview mode
[http://www.undefined.net/w/index.php?title=Test]. These limitations severely
hamper the usefulness of this hook in extension writing, and should be removed.
Version: 1.8.x
Severity: normal
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/UserMagic